Suncheon-si Sindae Health Living Support Center Receives Minister of Health and Welfare Award This Year

Health Life Support Center Project Evaluation Wins Award for 2 Consecutive Years

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City Shindae Health Living Support Center was selected as an excellent institution in this year's Health Living Support Center project evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and received the Minister of Health and Welfare Award.

In this evaluation, Suncheon City was recognized for its contribution to chronic disease prevention, health living practice, and local resource cooperation projects within the community despite the difficult situation caused by COVID-19 this year, receiving the Minister of Health and Welfare Award along with a prize of 4 million won.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Shindae Health Living Support Center conducted meticulous multi-step disinfection when lending and returning childbirth and childcare supplies, providing a safe childcare environment so that parents could use them with peace of mind.

When it became impossible to proceed with the originally planned health promotion programs, the center collaborated with local civic groups to carry out village community projects suited for the post-COVID-19 era, forming autonomous associations and operating child care play classes, offering new and diverse programs to dual-income families and vulnerable children exhausted by COVID-19, showing high participation rates and satisfaction.

Selected for the urban agriculture shared space garden creation support project together with civic groups, the Health Living Support Center cultivated a rooftop garden to conduct healing gardens and healing agriculture, and the harvested vegetables were distributed to six senior centers through three vegetable sharing days, creating opportunities for communication among residents.

Additionally, targeting residents spending much time at home due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the center held ten sessions of the ‘Natural Candle Making Experience’ for emotional and psychological stabilization, and also runs a non-face-to-face program sharing yoga exercises twice a week on YouTube using online platforms to help residents incorporate exercise into daily life at home.

A representative of Suncheon City Shindae Health Living Support Center stated, “Next year, we will support residents' healthy lives by operating healthier and more substantial customized programs suited to the COVID era.” He added, “As COVID-19 is currently spreading nationwide, we ask Suncheon citizens to strictly follow social distancing guidelines and personal hygiene, such as wearing masks, to prevent infection.”

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